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Not so much petition a higher authority, but meditate upon it. If the point of meditation is to get control of the mind's ability to give false form, there's an obvious advantage in breaking the minds tendency to engineer problems by viewing itself as the highest authority.

The mind. Just be alone with yourself. There's always time to chase a thought.

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Perhaps I was discussing this detail with spidergoat earlier. The mind (our capacity to like or dislike things, which plays a great role in our desire), much like the body, is part of our existence, at least as far as the here and now is concerned. Its like the clothes we wear .... tomorrow we may wear something different, but as far as the present goes, this is what we have got on now.

If our mind is out of control, then there may be a tangiable benefit in shutting down the mind (and hence shutting down desire), but this is only a temporary measure. The mind demands attention. That type of meditation that focuses on shutting down the mind is but a stepping stone to that type of meditation that engages it like a friend.
In otherwords, the ultimate solution for the raging mind is to find its resting place. Pulling out the plug is an artificial imposition.

You didn't have a child's body? You don't expect to have an old man's body?
Are your mind's desires constant throughout this transmigration of inumerable bodies?
If you want to say you are the centre of your body (or mind), first you have to be specific about which one you are talking about.

Its kind of a mix of both, part and whole, difference and oneness. To be properly balanced one has to not only recognize ones existence as a part, but also whole that they are part of. Increased understanding of either the part or whole also empowers understanding of the other.

Earlier I gave the analogy of the tree and its leaves and roots in regards to watering. A leaf that makes the demands of the root is unbalanced. The more the leaf understands either its position as a leaf or the nature of the tree, the less likely it is to be beseeched by the desire to receive water like the root.
In otherwords, the more properly we understand ourselves as part in a whole, the more the mind becomes a friend.

So now the mind (the engine room of desire) has just gone from impure to non-existent ....

The problem is making people perceive that.

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Given the counter-intuitive nature of your proposal, the difficulty is understandable.
Destroying the mind as a category is probably the most severe type of containment one could hope to attempt.

I should say that there are different kinds of meditation. The Zen kind may not concern you. People also meditate as a form of mental relaxation or prayer. I don't care about that.

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I conceded at the start that the "mind as enemy" types of meditation offer a modicum of benefit.
In one sense, the problems of the mind are the level playing field of everyone, so any attempt to solve the problem (outside of the standard of "feeding the greed") is noble.